Edmund Purdom
Acting · Born 1924-12-20 · age 84 at death · Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom (19 December 1924 – 1 January 2009) was an English actor, voice artist, and director. He worked first on stage in Britain, performing various works by Shakespeare, then later in America on Broadway, until making his way to Hollywood, and eventually spent the remainder of his life appearing in Italian cinema. He is perhaps best known for his starring role in 1954's historical epic The Egyptian. By taking over important roles exited by Mario Lanza and Marlon Brando, Purdom was known by the mid-1950s as "The Replacement Star". Between the 1970s and 90s, he was a regular in European genre cinema, working with directors like Juan Piquer Simón, Joe D'Amato, Sergio Martino, Ruggero Deodato.
Titles
The Diary of Anne Frank
Pieces
Julius Caesar
Who's Afraid of Dracula?
Titanic
The Egyptian
Absurd
2019: After the Fall of New York
Ator, the Fighting Eagle
Blackie the Pirate
The Rift
The Fifth Cord
Don't Open Till Christmas
The Scarlet and the Black
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
The Winds of War
Rulers of the City
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
The Night Child
Knights of the Quest
Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
Concorde Affair
Invaders of the Lost Gold
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
The Suspects
The Student Prince
The Seventh Scroll
The Devil's Lover
The King's Thief
The Beauty Jungle
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
The Prodigal
The Assisi Underground
The Loves of Salammbo
Athena
The Man Who Laughs
Don Bosco
The New Godfathers
Lafayette
The Comedy Man
Herod the Great
The Last of the Vikings
Strange Intruder
Thomas
The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
The Big Family
Theatre 625
Assault on Fort Texan
Deep Thoughts
Fifteen Year Old Captain
Gun Shy Piluk
Texas Jim
Champagne in paradiso
The Night They Killed Rasputin
From the Archives of the Criminal Police
Killer vs Killers
The Squirrel
Karzan, Jungle Lord
White Slave Ship
The Cossacks